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My Map Free: Get An Automatically Sorted Map View Of Your Browsing History In Chrome

Umar — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:01:31 +0000

Are you trying to analyze your web browsing history? One way would be to manually sift through the entries in your browser’s web history and then make your analysis. But an easier way is offered by My Map Free. My Map Free is a free to use browser extension that helps you get a map-like [...]

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Magnificent Magnifier: Use Your Android As A Magnifying Glass

Justin Pot — Sat, 25 May 2013 18:01:59 +0000

Use your Android device as an improvised magnifying glass. If your phone or tablet has a camera – and it almost certainly does – the annoyingly alliterative app named Magnificent Magnifier can use that camera to show you tiny details in the world around you. Start up the app for the first time and you [...]

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EduClipper: A Social Bookmarking Website Targeted At Educators

Umar — Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:52 +0000

Pinterest was launched not too long ago. But in this short span, this online networking platform has gained a large number of followers who simply “pin” the things they like to their profile. There are many Pinterest-like websites popping up that are offering the same service but for a specific target audience. Such a networking [...]

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digiCamControl: Control Your DSLR via USB From Your PC

moin — Sat, 25 May 2013 02:01:37 +0000

If you have just purchased a digital camera and it is your first one, then there are a lot of things then you have to learn. The most difficult part is undoubtedly going to be to learn how to navigate around your phone’s controls. What you could really use is a navigation interface that is [...]

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Dinamotxt: Send SMS Messages From Your Tablet Using Your Phone Number [Android]

Dave LeClair — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:01:16 +0000

Do you like to use your tablet for communication more than your smartphone? Android tablets offer larger keyboards, so typing on them can be quite a bit easier than doing so on a smaller smartphone. However, people generally know your default SMS number from your carrier, and getting them to text on another number can be [...]

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Pically: Generate Your Own Photo Calendars In PDF Format

MOin — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:01:18 +0000

You will find many photo calendars in the market but if you want to get a custom photo calendar made, you will need to spend a lot of money. Here to offer you this service for free is a desktop app called Pically. Features: A user friendly desktop app. Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux. [...]

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Fotofriend Video Booth: Record FLV Videos From Your Webcam By Adding Fun Effects

MOin — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:01:25 +0000

Do you need to record a video through your webcam and add fun effects to it? Normally, in order to do this, you would first record the video through a desktop application. The next step would be to pass the recorded video through another effects-adding application in order to achieve your desired results. But this [...]

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CareerQA: Get Information & Ask Questions About Career Paths

Dave LeClair — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:01:01 +0000

Deciding on a career is probably one of the most important decisions any of us will have to make in life. After all, the career you choose will more or less lay out the course for your life. Will you be happy at your job? Will you make enough money? Do you have the skills [...]

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CompressNow: Easily Compress The Size Of JPG, GIF, JPEG & PNG Pictures

MOin — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:53 +0000

There are lots of times when an Internet user wishes that the digital images they are working with were a smaller size. Just because of the size of a picture, one has to face waiting times in numerous situations. For example, if you are attaching an image with an email or uploading it on a [...]

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HTML5up: Offers Great Looking, Responsive Templates To Edit & Use

Justin Pot — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:01:23 +0000

Do you need a personal website, quickly, and prefer not to deal with setting up a CMS? HTML5up has you covered. This collection of slick, animated websites are free to download – and use. This means that, with a little bit of tweaking, you’ll have a fast, professional site set up quickly. Even better, most [...]

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FatURL: Easily Share Multiple URL’s Simultaneously Through A Single Link

Umar — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:01:35 +0000

Normally to share multiple URLs with a friend, we share the links individually. If you absolutely need to share all the links together you could, perhaps, email the links to your friend. Alternatively, if you are feeling a bit more creative, you can create a shareable folder on your online bookmarking service and add the [...]

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Timecamp: A Better Way To Keep Track Of Time For Better Billing

Dave LeClair — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:53 +0000

Are you looking for a better way to keep track of how you are spending your time? For freelancers, accurately keeping track of time for billing purposes is incredibly important. After all, you want to make sure you are paid the full amount for the time you provide the client, and the client wants to make [...]

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Xday for Android: A Countdown Timer App & Widget For The Impatient

Tim Brookes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:00 +0000

Counting down the days to an event can be laborious, but thankfully we now have our smartphones to do it for us. That’s exactly what Xday does, a free Android app for those of you who are looking forward to your next birthday, holiday or important date. A tool for crunching time and numbers, Xday’s [...]

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CoolFillerItem.com: A List Of Cheap Filler Items For Claiming Amazon Super Saver Delivery

Tim Brookes — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:01:00 +0000

How often have you been shopping on Amazon, only to fall short of their free shipping quota of $25 or more? Provided you don’t need your items urgently, it almost always makes more sense to add another item that pushes you over the threshold than to pay for shipping outright. Much of the time, buying [...]

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Extensity: Easily Enable & Disable Chrome Extensions

Joshua Lockhart — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:07 +0000

If you’ve ever visited MakeUseOf’s Best Chrome Extensions page, then there’s a high chance you have quite a few of them installed on your machine. There’s no shame in that! After all, that page has some really great downloads. However, it can get a bit cumbersome to have all of those extensions on your browser. Sometimes it [...]

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LoaderDroid: Get More Control While Downloading Files [Android]

Justin Pot — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:14 +0000

You don’t want that download on your phone to stop when you leave the house, but you also don’t want it to continue while you’re in transit – your data plan isn’t unlimited. If this sounds familiar, look into LoaderDroid. This Android download manager is packed with features, including the ability to pause and resume [...]

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myQuests: Manage Tasks In a Stylish Interface & Share Your Quests With Others [iOS]

moin — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:55 +0000

Are you looking for a stylish iOS application to manage your tasks and even share them? If yes, then what you want is a tool called myQuests. myQuests is a free to use smart device application compatible with iOS devices. The application is sized at nearly 9 MB and requires your iPod Touch, iPhone, or [...]

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LinksWatched: Get Warnings While Opening a Duplicate Tab In Mozilla Firefox

moin — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:08 +0000

Do you work with a lot of browser tabs at the same time? If so, then you will be aware of the fact that sometime we open up duplicate tabs because we lose track of all the tabs we have already got opened. Here to help you avoid duplicate tabs is something called LinksWatched. LinksWatched [...]

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ClippingMagic: Easily Remove The Background Of Any Image You Have

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:01:15 +0000

If you have photographed something and you want to upload it online to sell it, it is probably best to remove the background of the image. Typically, people already have this in mind and take the picture of the object against a white background or a plain colored background. But if you have forgotten to [...]

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Design Something: A Chrome App To Create & Share 3D Design Models

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:05:21 +0000

Design Something is a free to use browser application that lets you create 3D models with ease. The application comes for Google Chrome and once you install it, a shortcut for it appears on the New Tab page. Clicking on this shortcut will take you to the PublishYourDesign’s model creation interface. You will find a [...]

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